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Writing Essay Rubric Code: J8CWA By lv2teach6 Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: 6-8

Writing Rubric
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Very Good 3 pts	Excellent 4 pts
Introduction	Poor Lacks a "hook" lacks a topic sentence * lacks attention grabber	Fair minimally attempts a topic sentence loosely attempts a "hook"	Very Good has a topic sentence or hook previews essay	Excellent * has both a hook and a topic sentence *effective use of figurative language
Middle paragraph	Poor lacking details to support main idea has no use of quotes, figurative language, or idioms	Fair uses some elements of description has a few details but lacks support for each detail	Very Good has details with some support for main idea uses some elements of description to support each detail	Excellent contains much detail supporting main idea vivid description *use of figurative language is exceptional
Conclusion	Poor does not tie essay together no reference to opening paragraph *no "red ribbon" sentence	Fair ties essay together refers to main idea in introduction	Very Good extensive use of active verbs and extremely descriptive adjectives and adverbs ties conclusion to introduction	Excellent extremely vivid use of language complete tie-in with main idea in introduction and middle paragraph *Red Ribbon ending
Mechanics	Poor several misspellings lacks subject/verb agreement *usage errors abound	Fair some misspelled words a few mistakes in subject/verb agreement *few usage errors	Very Good few misspellings that do not interfere with readability very few usage errors *almost no grammatical errors	Excellent No spelling errors No usage errors Interesting use of figurative language throughout No grammatical errors

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Writing Rubric
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Very Good 3 pts	Excellent 4 pts
Introduction	Poor Lacks a "hook" lacks a topic sentence * lacks attention grabber	Fair minimally attempts a topic sentence loosely attempts a "hook"	Very Good has a topic sentence or hook previews essay	Excellent * has both a hook and a topic sentence *effective use of figurative language
Middle paragraph	Poor lacking details to support main idea has no use of quotes, figurative language, or idioms	Fair uses some elements of description has a few details but lacks support for each detail	Very Good has details with some support for main idea uses some elements of description to support each detail	Excellent contains much detail supporting main idea vivid description *use of figurative language is exceptional
Conclusion	Poor does not tie essay together no reference to opening paragraph *no "red ribbon" sentence	Fair ties essay together refers to main idea in introduction	Very Good extensive use of active verbs and extremely descriptive adjectives and adverbs ties conclusion to introduction	Excellent extremely vivid use of language complete tie-in with main idea in introduction and middle paragraph *Red Ribbon ending
Mechanics	Poor several misspellings lacks subject/verb agreement *usage errors abound	Fair some misspelled words a few mistakes in subject/verb agreement *few usage errors	Very Good few misspellings that do not interfere with readability very few usage errors *almost no grammatical errors	Excellent No spelling errors No usage errors Interesting use of figurative language throughout No grammatical errors